nick98

I really believe it depends on the school. I have been a nurse for 3 years and I have at least 5 different nursing schools that come into my hospital throughout the year. I am amazed the lack of clinical skills that are taught. I can understand you may not get pts that require you to practice every skill, but my school made you pass clinical skills tests every semester and gave you a list your final semester of all the clinical skills you need in the real world and would find you pts to do all of them on before you graduated. To see a student who is about to graduate in a week never fill a feeding bag or doesn't even know you auscultate for NGT placement is sad, yet not the students fault. I feel it is the fault of the school.

Our pt's get Colace 100mg BID, 17.2mg senna @ 12pm and Miralax every other day. Some also get supp. every other evening as needed :rolleyes:with everything else. We're pretty good about not having pt's constipated. I also agree with the other poster about Fluid. Hope that helps.

It would be better to take an evening person. The day shift is usually the most hectic in rehab due to not only getting nursing things done but also trying to do these things around the pt's rehab schedule and also having all the pt's up and ready for therapies on time in the am. It would help out the day shift if some of the patients who have early therapies would have their am care done before the night shift leaves in the am, since some have therapies starting at 8am. Day shift should do things that are scheduled for 3pm (evening shift is 3pm-11pm) at 2pm before the next shift to help the evening shift out.

i have read in the past statements regarding policies on tattoos not showing at work/school. in my opinion i feel this is a form of discrimination. i personally have many tattoos 4 of which are very visible, and have never had a problem with school/work or any patients for that matter. if my school had that policy it would be the first thing i discussed with the head of the student government, the dean, and if no results there the local press. again though i fully understand many people's view points againest tattoos, i also understand my rights to not be discriminated againest based on what i have on my skin.